dave@vdelta.UUCP (Dave Arnold) (02/02/88)
I am trying to gather an understanding of X.409 by reading the CCITT spec. (Recommendation X.409, MESSAGE HANDLING SYSTEMS: PRESENTATION TRANSFER SYNTAX AND NOTATION, Malaga-Torremolinos, 1984). I am having difficulties trying to put this spec. into perspective as far as an application program is concerned. For example, what would a application program typically produce? The standard notation described in ANNEX B? Could the program simply generate the standard resprestation described in section 3? Does there exist another document which would help explain this a little better? BTW, in a previous posting of mine, several people responded with the term ASN.1 What is ASN.1 and how does it relate to X.409? Thanks. Dave Arnold dave@arnold.UUCP dave@arnold.VOLT.COM -- Dave Arnold uunet!ccicpg!arnold!dave -or- dave@arnold.UUCP -or- dave@arnold.VOLT.COM